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In this image from contributed video, Bryan Farnsworth, 49, is seen in an ankle-length tie-dyed skirt with a pink shirt, blazer and tie during a Saturday night Lincoln Day Dinner in Tremonton. The declared candidate for Congress in Utah’s 1st District, who told the audience he is bipolar, was accompanied by a dog. He may be cited for misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct because a Utah Highway Patrol trooper was injured while escorting the agitated Farnsworth from the hall. Also, Farnsworth made comments about the president’s military policies and called Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop traitors.

Congressional candidate rants onstage at dinner, may be cited

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 6:11am

TREMONTON -- Police are recommending that Tremonton's city attorney cite a declared candidate for Congress in Utah's 1st District for misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct because of an incident at Saturday night's Lincoln Day Dinner.

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Video of Bryan Farnsworth's rant in Tremonton

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 4:54pm

See a video of Bryan Farnsworth's rant in Tremonton. Bryan Farnsworth, a declared candidate in Utah's 1st Congressional District, was kept out of the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner after his speech on Saturday night.


 

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Skirt-wearing Congressional candidate makes wild threats in Tremonton

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 11:30pm

TREMONTON -- Bryan Farnsworth, a declared candidate in Utah's 1st Congressional District, was kept out of the Republican Lincoln Day Dinner after his speech on Saturday night.

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Saving dollars on pennies with steel

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 9:45pm

WASHINGTON — A penny-pinching member of Congress is taking aim at the cost of producing 1-cent coins.

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta outlines the main areas of proposed spending cuts during a news conference at the Pentagon, Thursday, Jan., 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

New round of military base closures announced

Last updated Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 4:04pm

WASHINGTON -- Pentagon leaders outlined a plan Thursday for absorbing $487 billion in defense cuts over the coming decade by announcing a new round of base closures, shrinking U.S. ground forces, slowing the purchase of a next-generation stealth fighter and retiring older planes and ships.

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This video image provided by the Office of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords shows Giffords announcing her plans to resign, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Giffords announced Sunday she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from wounds suffered in an assassination attempt a little more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Office of Gabrielle Giffords)

Giffords' decision to resign sets up Ariz. race

Last updated Monday, January 23, 2012 - 10:19am

PHOENIX -- The race to replace Rep. Gabrielle Giffords begins in earnest Monday as the Arizona congresswoman's planned resignation sets up a free-for-all in a competitive district.

The three-term Democrat announced Sunday that she intends to resign from Congress this week to concentrate on recovering from a gunshot wound to the head just over a year ago in an assassination attempt that shook the country.

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(WILLIAM B. PLOWMAN/The Associated Press) NBC News, Speaker of the House, Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, appears on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in Washington. House Republicans said Sunday they oppose a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill that extends a payroll tax cut and jobless benefits for just two months and said congressional bargainers need to write a new version lasting a longer time. “It’s pretty clear I and our members oppose the Senate bill,” Boehner said, adding, “I believe two months is just kicking the can down the road.”

House GOP leaders want new payroll tax cut bill

Last updated Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 3:45pm

WASHINGTON — Top House Republicans rebelled Sunday against a bipartisan, Senate-approved bill extending payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits for two months, reigniting a politically fueled holiday-season clash that had seemed all but doused.

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Hatch laments failure of his balanced budget amendment

Last updated Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - 11:34pm

OGDEN -- Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Wednesday's defeat of the latest version of his constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget was expected, but there's no other way to bring federal spending under control.

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(J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/The Associated Press) Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. A crucial vote is scheduled in the House Tuesday on a GOP effort to back an extension of the payroll-tax cut and other measures including an provision to speed approval on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline.

GOP embraces showdown over oil pipeline, tax cuts

Last updated Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - 7:29am

WASHINGTON — Sensing a political opening, congressional Republicans are moving toward a high-stakes showdown with President Barack Obama over a plan to link fast-tracked approval of an oil pipeline to a measure renewing a payroll tax cut.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to Texas will help the president achieve his top priority — creating jobs — without costing a dime of taxpayer money.

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Participants in Occupy Ogden carry a tent to their protest site in front of the Ogden Federal Building on Monday as they demonstrate against Congress’s proposed expansion of laws regarding the detention and trials of Americans accused of terrorism. Protesters say, if approved, the laws would stifle freedom of speech. (Contributed photo)

Occupy Ogden: Congress infringing on rights

Last updated Monday, December 12, 2011 - 10:30pm

OGDEN -- The right of all Americans to a trial by their peers was at the heart of a protest at noon Monday by about 20 members of the Occupy Ogden movement.

Marching and chanting at the Ogden Federal Building, the protesters expressed their concern over the U.S. Senate's National Defense Authorization Act, Senate Bill 1867, passed Dec. 1 by a vote of 93-7.

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(J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/The Associated Press) A statue of a contemplative Benjamin Franklin overlooks the empty hallways of Congress as the deadline of the deficit Supercommittee approaches with no expectations for success, Sunday morning at the Capitol in Washington, Nov. 20, 2011. On various talk shows Sunday, Democrats and Republicans on the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction exchanged blame for the a deepening impasse that has all but doomed chances for an accord.

Bush tax cut debate dooms deal to cut deficit

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 9:18am

WASHINGTON — A long-running war between Democrats and Republicans over Bush-era tax cuts doomed the debt supercommittee’s chances of reaching a deal. Efforts to overhaul the tax code may await the same fate as both parties gear up to make taxes a central issue in 2012 elections.

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(RICHARD DREW/The Associated Press) Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Monday, Nov. 21, 2011. Stocks are taking a sharp fall in early trading Monday amid reports that a congressional committee will fail to agree on a plan to cut the U.S. government’s budget deficit.

US stock futures fall a day after Dow drops 249

Last updated Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 7:25am

NEW YORK — Stock futures are edging lower Tuesday, a day after the Dow Jones industrial average plunged 249 points as a congressional committee failed to reach a deal to cut budget deficits.

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(J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/The Associated Press) Supercommittee co-chairs Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., right, confer as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction meets to hear testimony about the national debt from the Congressional Budget Office director on Capitol Hill in Washington. Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2011, is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job. But the same legislators who concocted that budgetary booby trap just four months ago could end up spending the 2012 election year and beyond battling over defusing it.

Congress may try blocking cuts if debt panel fails

Last updated Monday, November 21, 2011 - 7:37am

WASHINGTON — Failure by Congress’ debt-cutting supercommittee to recommend $1.2 trillion in savings by Wednesday is supposed to automatically trigger spending cuts in the same amount to accomplish that job.

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Tea party group honors Liljenquist as he ponders run against Hatch

Last updated Friday, November 18, 2011 - 9:55am

 

WASHINGTON — A Utah state senator picked up an extra prize while he’s in Washington this week, and it’s a sign that some tea partiers haven’t given up on defeating six-term Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch next year.

 

FreedomWorks, which helps mobilize local tea party groups, named State Sen. Dan Liljenquist, R-Bountiful,  its “Legislative Entrepreneur of the Year” for his work on pensions and Medicaid.

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Senator plans to hold hearing on Facebook tracking of users

Last updated Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 5:13pm

Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, said he would hold a hearing to look into reports that Facebook tracks its users on the Web after they log out.

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